The Island on Bird Street (1997)
Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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What critics compared The Island on Bird Street to
As a parable of art-triumphing-over-Nazism, it's not as strong as the Arthur Miller-scripted 1980 TV movie "Playing for Time," and as a Warsaw ghetto survival story, it can't touch the 1997 Danish drama, "The Island on Bird Street."